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Hank Jones's most famous gig Today is Hank Jones's birthday. He was a wonderful pianist, elegance in person, whose career spanned...

Improvisation is the highest form of art for me, because when you see a score for the first time [... T] he first reaction is gut, instin...

... one time [Ben Sidran] interviewed Art Blakey, and he said "if you had to describe jazz in one word, what would it be?" An...

I come from a small town in Northern Spain, in the Basque Country. Although we had a good jazz festival nearby, in San Sebastián, music-w...

Today it's the 45th anniversary of John Coltrane's passing. To commemorate this extraordinary musician, over the last few weeks I...

Ted Gioia  has just published his latest book, The Jazz Standards - A Guide to the Repertoire  (Oxford University Press). Gioia has a stron...

A few days back Sonny Rollins chose his top ten tenor sax tracks for Jazz Times. You can see the list here and, if you have Spotify, you ...